When I restart with the CD in the drive, it shows the VL splash screen, and tells me to press enter, or select the type of kernel to load. After I press enter, or select any kernel type from the list (scsi, sata, linux, linux2, scsi2) it says it's loading linux, and the inirt (or something of the sorts), then it immediately goes to a black screen with a blinking white underscore. After that, I hear my hard drive click, and the computer is locked up, but the underscore continues to blink.

Any suggestions?

(I'm getting the same problem with Knoppix 5.1.1, as it locks up in the same place, with that blinking underscore. However Knoppix 5.0.1 boots fine.)

I have been known to be wrong, but it sounds to me like a hardware problem: either the hard drive or RAM, in my estimation. Is this a computer you had a previous OS on, did you have problems before with it? Try another Live CD on it such as VL Live or Slax and see if you get problems. Given that Knoppix Live is giving you problems I would almost certainly say it is a hardware problem.

If it were me I would boot with the Ultimate Boot CD and use the hard drive diagnostic tools and memtest to see if it is either one of those problems.

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I have been known to be wrong, but it sounds to me like a hardware problem: either the hard drive or RAM, in my estimation. Is this a computer you had a previous OS on, did you have problems before with it? Try another Live CD on it such as VL Live or Slax and see if you get problems. Given that Knoppix Live is giving you problems I would almost certainly say it is a hardware problem.

If it were me I would boot with the Ultimate Boot CD and use the hard drive diagnostic tools and memtest to see if it is either one of those problems.

I've had Windows 2000 on it, and it ran fine, but I wanted to switch to linux, so I've ran Knoppix 5.0.1 and Damn Small Linux RC3, and they've worked great. I even did a hard drive installation of Knoppix 5.0.1, and it's worked. But, with VL 5.8 and Knoppix 5.1.1, I'm hanging up at the same spot. I'm burning the ultimate boot cd now, and I'll get back to you with the test results.

I have been known to be wrong, but it sounds to me like a hardware problem: either the hard drive or RAM, in my estimation. Is this a computer you had a previous OS on, did you have problems before with it? Try another Live CD on it such as VL Live or Slax and see if you get problems. Given that Knoppix Live is giving you problems I would almost certainly say it is a hardware problem.

If it were me I would boot with the Ultimate Boot CD and use the hard drive diagnostic tools and memtest to see if it is either one of those problems.

I've had Windows 2000 on it, and it ran fine, but I wanted to switch to linux, so I've ran Knoppix 5.0.1 and Damn Small Linux RC3, and they've worked great. I even did a hard drive installation of Knoppix 5.0.1, and it's worked. But, with VL 5.8 and Knoppix 5.1.1, I'm hanging up at the same spot. I'm burning the ultimate boot cd now, and I'll get back to you with the test results.

I checked everything out, and it's all working OK. Still have the problem.